These poems will blow your head off, make you weep, fill you with compassion and tenderness. They sink into you before they detonate, sending out shock waves: in "each cell...the brilliant filigree of desire." WHERE THE WOMEN ARE FLYING is rich with apt imagery-"wet world quivers, like the withers of a mare," "flame thrower hair," "hands that ...curl like long dead spiders"-and with stories of four generations of women. Elizabeth Claman's book has given us a passionate search for love and life that illuminates our own lives. -Adam David Miller, author of TICKET TO EXILE and THE SKY IS A PAGE